Sunday, August 23, 2015

Hercules is
a copper statue depicting the ancient Greek demigod Heracles. The statue is
located at the top of a Pyramid, which stands on top of the Octagon. Today
"Hercules" refers not only to the statue, but the whole monument,
including the Octagon and Pyramid. The monument is the highest point in the Bergpark
Wilhelmshöhe. On 23 June 2013 the Mountainpark and the Hercules were proclaimed
as world heritage site during the UNESCO meeting in Phnom Penh.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

It's been a few days ago... We were interviewed by a journalist from the a newspaper HNA.We reported about the article on our Facebook page. Now we want to write about the interview here on our blog.The reason why the HNA reported about us was that we always looking for new hosts.We lived no longer in Stendal. Our Frind Johannes moved to Kassel and so we went with him. That was also a reason for us to talk with the local press. Thank you Ms. Nickoll for the nice report about us... Here is the article

Sunday, August 16, 2015

After travelling to Finland and Russia we did some sightseeing in Berlin before going home again.

The city is huge and the best way to go around is by bike.

Jani was driving us around and showing us the typical tourist sights.

We started at the famous Alexander Platz / Alex with the huge TV-Tower, it is 368m high and the highest building in Germany.

As impressing as the TV-Tower is the Brandenburg Gate.

There were so many people doing photo stops us included. It is in between the very beautiful street "Unter den Linden" and "Straße des 17. Juni",

both street are very nice and it was lovely doing a walk there.
Jani also showed us her work place, the "Haus der Kulturen der Welt". It was build in the late fiftys as a congress hall and nowadays it is used as cultural centre with concerts, exhibitions, cinema etc.

From there you also have a great view to the workplace of Angela Merkel our chancellor.

We also got a glimpse on the impressing Berliner Dom

and the Rotes Rathaus,

the workplace of the Mayor of Berlin.
At the end of the day we drove to her most-liked place in Berlin the Rummelsburger Bucht and we saw a fantastic sunset.

In summary we really liked the city and Jani promised us when we are back here she will show us more of her favourite city in the world.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

On our last day in St. Petersburg we did a boot tour in the river Newa,
the Griboyedov canal and the Moyka. This was great to get a glimpse of
the city especially all this great buildings on the embankment of the
river.

Not to miss when you visit St. Petersburg: The Church of the Savior on blood. The Church contains over 7500 square meters of Mosaic. The colors are great and it feels like you are in a fairytale movie.

We also visit the oldest market of St.Petersburg where you can get everything you need, from fresh fish to pigheads (ugrr).

Another photo shooting in front of the river Newa with a close up from
us to say good bye to this very interesting city. Nevertheless, we are
happy to visit Berlin.

Sunday, August 9, 2015

We also visited a great art space in St. Petersburg called Loft Project
Etagi. There it felt a little bit like Berlin and we were surprised
that they have this space in the middle of the city centre. There was
also a small cinema with films in original language, just when we were
there, they were showing the great German movie "Victoria"

Saturday, August 8, 2015

It is a very impressive museum. It is huge and the rooms are all very beautiful.

Before you are able to visit the museum you have to stand in line, on an Sunday morning it took one hour ...

But it is worth it! Because of the great wooden floor we had to leave
our high heels at home :) (it is forbidden to enter the museum with high
heels and the this is very special in Russia where we mostly saw women
wearing them)

After a couple of hours we were exhausting of walking around and left
the building. If you want to see all artworks there you need more than 4
days to visit all 350 rooms.

Whats great about St. Petersburg, too? There are still some old Ladas
moving around. My grandpa used to drive one when we were young...